Protest
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the training facility allows for oth
er nations to have an adequate and
capable military force. According
to an article by Louis Caldera, sec
retary of the Army, the new institu
tion will explicitly work to “solve
regional problems, including re
solving border conflicts peacefully,
fighting drugs and organized crime,
responding to natural disasters and
supporting peacekeeping efforts.”
However, 20-year-old Alder
Phillis, a resident of Eugene and a
University student, said the institu
JLI
tion has only changed its name and
its primary goals are still the same.
She said the Eugene protest was
only one of hundreds simultane
ously held over the country to
protest the reopening of what she
says was a terribly corrupt institu
tion.
“It’s just one way to get protesters
to cool off,” she said.
Phillis said she was one of a half
dozen University students who
were arrested by Fort Benning po
lice when they refused to leave a
demonstration on base grounds last
fall. She said she was not comfort
able releasing the names of the oth
er students arrested with her but
did say they all were members of
the Survival Center, an on-campus
hub for progressive activism.
One passer-by, Gary Hiser, a Eu
gene resident and retired major in
the Marine Corps, said the protest
ers needed to understand that the
real issue in South America wasn’t
U.S. intervention but was instead
that most aid shipments never
reached the people they were in
tended to help. He also questioned
the logic of protesting in front of the
Federal Building.
“This isn’t the federal courthouse
anymore; it’s all Bureau of Land
Management,” he said.
Standing behind a banner read
ing “Stop U.S. sponsored Torture,
Close the School of the Assassins,”
Phillis said she was happy with the
turnout for the protest.
She said the day’s protest would
be her last chance for community
actions, because she was leaving to
join a women’s health organization
in Latin America to work on a the
sis project.
Many protesters held wooden
crosses on which they had painted
names of people they said had been
killed by soldiers who received
training at the U.S. base. A few
passing motorists honked in sup
port of the crowd.
Foster said she did not under
stand how the United States could
maintain the position that its train
ing offered stability when, she said,
it most often only produced insta
bility.
"You may get a totalitarian state
stability, but that’s only temporary,”
she said. “That will just rupture.”
While she understood the need
for the United States to play in ac
tive role in foreign affairs, she did
not see the need for the type of in
tervention she said the Army’s
training center provided.
“We shouldn’t have military an
swers to world problems,” she said.
“It’s a failing policy. We need to re
think some things we’re doing.”
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But activists worry that in
creased production would set back
environmental efforts. Randy
Berggren, EWEB general manager,
expressed this concern.
“We need to hold onto our prin
ciple of protecting the environ
ment, despite the supply-and-de
mand issue,” Berggren said.
Wyden said the government will
not take an approach that will
harm the environment.
Several members of the discus
sion suggested a market price cap
to regulate electricity prices.
Steve Hickok, chief operating of
ficer of Bonneville Power Admin
istration, argued that price caps
could do more harm than good.
“We are currently buying in an
unregulated market,” Hickok said.
“If price caps went into effect in
March, when we sell into the mar
ket rather than buy, we would be
financially toast.”
Other states have discussed sell
ing off their hydroelectric facilities
into the energy market to pay for
increased energy prices, something
Wyden said won’t happen in Ore
gon. Another concern was that
such deregulation could result in a
situation much like California’s.
Energy Secretary-designate
Spencer Abraham had previously
been in favor of selling off Bon
neville Power Administration and
the energy industry, but Wyden
said Abraham’s feelings have
changed.
“I’m encouraged by what Abra
ham’s indicated: that he will break
with the past and not sell off Bon
neville,” Wyden said.
Wyden said that if Oregon
deregulates its energy industry, it
won’t be anything like California’s
“botched” efforts. Wyden will be
taking suggestions from Wednes
day’s discussion to Abraham dur
ing a Senate confirmation hearing
Thursday.
“This is an extraordinarily seri
ous issue,” Wyden said. “I will use
all my energy and strength to fol
low up on the issues to provide
clean, affordable power.”
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